Thursday, July 23, 2026
Happy Thursday!
There’s a piece of marketing advice I’ve heard for years that sounds smart on the surface…
But ultimately leads most people to indentured servitude in the content salt mines.
It’s the concept of “overdelivering.”
The theory goes like this:
Giving away SO much useful info to your audience for free will create goodwill…
Trigger reciprocity (i.e make people feel indebted to you)...
And naturally lead them to conclude:
“If this is what they give away for free… imagine how good the PAID stuff must be!!1!”
Sadly, this is not how it works.
Why?
Because the logic falls apart the second you look at how people assign value to something.
It’s a simple math equation.
What they got ÷ what they paid.
If you bought a $500 course and it helped you land a $12,000 client...
You’re gonna feel pretty good about that.
The cost gives your brain something to compare the outcome against.
Likewise, when someone stumbles across an ad for my book in their feed and decides to grab it…
Then divides the value they got by the $3 they paid…
I *know* they’re gonna feel good about it.
I’ve engineered it this way on purpose.
It’s not about manipulating people into buying from me because they feel indebted to me…
(which is such a weird idea when you really think about it)
Instead, it’s about PROVING to them that when money changes hands…
They’re going to get more from me than what they paid for.
That’s it.
This is how you can “overdeliver” your way to more sales and profits.
Not by giving away stuff for free in your emails that actually belongs in a paid product.
Because you can’t divide by zero.
The value equation breaks.
Now, your emails still need to be worth reading, of course.
So the real question is…
How do you make your emails worth reading WITHOUT giving away tactical ‘how-to’ info for free?
The answer:
Email Storyselling.
You see, storytelling allows you to harness the power of entertainment to get attention…
And insight trumps tactics when it comes to creating DESIRE for your paid offers…
(instead of simply satiating people’s appetites in advance)
Combine the two and you get an irresistible recipe for engaging emails that people love to read and buy from.
Which is where my new Email Storyselling Skill Stack offer comes in.
It’s a bundle of 10 Skills that install the entire Email Storyselling system into your Claude account…
So you can quickly spin up entertaining and insightful emails that sell…
In your authentic voice…
And turn your list into a daily sales machine…
Without having to beg and plead your subscribers to compensate you for the quality of your free content.
If that sounds like something you want…
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Right now, you can snag it for just $150.
But on August 4, the price goes up to $500.
So if I was you, I’d lock in the discount while you still can.
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Jim Hamilton
Learn how to build a profitable daily newsletter with Email Storyselling. Read by 5,000+ subscribers.